COLD's cover version of the SNOW PATROL song "Run" can be strteamed below. The track is taken from COLD's sixth studio album, "The Things We Can't Stop", which will be released on September 13 via Napalm Records. COLD has always documented memories and moments in song, etching them forever in diaristic lyrics, cinematic production, and ...
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"A Prayer For The Loud", the new video from Danish rockers D-A-D, can be seen below. The song is the title track of the band's first album in eight years, which was released in May via AFM Records. The follow-up to 2011's "DIC.NII.LAN.DAFT.ERD.ARK" harks back to the core of what D-A-D does better than most: ...
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Tony Iommi recently spoke to Planet Rock about BLACK SABBATH's decision to part ways with the malfunctioning Ozzy Osbourne in 1979 and replace him with Ronnie James Dio. "I think the major problem started from drugs," Iommi recalled about the events that led to the split with Osbourne. "We'd been about for a while at ...
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BREAKING BENJAMIN's massive hit song and fan favorite "The Diary Of Jane" has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The song off the band's 2006 release "Phobia", also certified platinum, was a Top 5 rock radio hit. BREAKING BENJAMIN is currently on the road wrapping up its North American ...
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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH has announced its biggest European arena headlining tour to date, which will take place in January and February of 2020 with a massive package: thrash metal legends MEGADETH will join the lineup as the special guest. Support will come from BAD WOLVES, the global breakthrough rock sensation of 2018 which has ...
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Richie Faulkner joined the Tennessee JUDAS PRIEST tribute band SAD WINGS on stage on August 18 at the Hard Rock Cafe in Nashville to perform three PRIEST classics: "Metal Gods", "Breaking The Law" and "Hell Bent For Leather". Video footage of his appearance can be seen below. Earlier today, SAD WINGS wrote on Facebook: "So....we ...
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LINKIN PARK's Mike Shinoda has released the music video for his solo song "World's On Fire". The track is taken from Mike's full-length solo album called "Post Traumatic", which came out last year. Shinoda, who co-directed the clip with Juan M. Urbina, shared how his personal interest in anime has shaped the inspiration for "World's ...
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The official lyric video for "Touching The Divine", a new solo song from CINDERELLA frontman Tom Keifer, can be seen below. The track is taken from his upcoming second solo album, "Rise", which will be released on September 13 via Cleopatra Records. Timing, as the saying goes, is everything. And when you're a career artist ...
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Former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen spoke to France's Duke TV about her knack for mixing a variety of musical styles and bringing together audiences from different backgrounds. "I wouldn't call myself at all as a crossover artist — I kind of hate that word — but in a way, you need ...
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A three-minute video in which the members of EXHORDER discuss their latest single, "Hallowed Sound", can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's first album in 27 years, "Mourn The Southern Skies", which will be released on September 20 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band now features founding members Vinnie La Bella ...
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SAINT ASONIA, the act led by ex-THREE DAYS GRACE frontman Adam Gontier and STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok, is previewing its music video for it single "The Hunted" through a new Snapchat Lens that puts the viewer right into the video's key scene. In the 30-second excerpt of SAINT ASONIA's forthcoming full-length video for "The Hunted", ...
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When you're a two-time Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee, you don't have a lot to prove. But legendary singer-songwriter and keyboardist Gregg Rolie, who holds that rare distinction as a founding member and original lead vocalist of both SANTANA and JOURNEY, and who has also been a mainstay of RINGO STARR'S ALL-STARR BAND ...
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"Hallowed Sound", a brand new song from New Orleans-based thrash metal pioneers EXHORDER, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's first album in 27 years, "Mourn The Southern Skies", which will be released on September 20 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band now features founding members Vinnie La Bella (guitar) and ...
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"The Devil We Know", a new song from alternative rockers COLD, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's sixth studio album, "The Things We Can't Stop", which will be released on September 13 via Napalm Records. Of the song, COLD frontman Scooter Ward says: "It evolved from me seeing people fighting ...
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BAD WOLVES will release their sophomore album, "N.A.T.I.O.N.", on October 25 via Eleven Seven Music. Pre-order the disc and receive an immediate download of tracks "Killing Me Slowly" and "I'll Be There". BAD WOLVES have proven to be the unprecedented global breakthrough rock act of 2018 and aim to continue that momentum with "N.A.T.I.O.N." The ...
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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH has uploaded another video from the recording sessions for the band's upcoming eighth album, tentatively due in 2020. The disc is once again being helmed by Kevin Churko, the Canadian record producer/engineer and songwriter who currently lives in Las Vegas, where he works out of his private studio, The Hideout Recording ...
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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH will join forces with MEGADETH and BAD WOLVES for a European tour in 2020. Exact cities and dates will be announced on September 9. More information will be made available at Megadeathpunch.com. Earlier this year, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH spent time recording its eighth album with its regular producer, ...
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Finnish hard rock quartet SANTA CRUZ will release its fourth album, "Katharsis", via M-Theory Audio on October 18, two days before the group hits the road with ATREYU on a month-long North American tour. Today, the group — which has recently shared European stages with the likes of BON JOVI, STEEL PANTHER and WHITESNAKE, and ...
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ShipRocked 2020 has added HELLYEAH and IN THIS MOMENT's Maria Brink — in her first-ever solo piano lounge set — to the music lineup for the 11th year of the ultimate rock music cruise vacation. RA — with its first performances in over five years — and AEGES also join the bill for ShipRocked 2020, ...
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PUDDLE OF MUDD vocalist Wes Scantlin recently spoke with Andy Hall of the Des Moines, Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On his newfound sobriety: Wes: "It's been a long road, but it's well worth it... It was definitely God. He ...
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Japanese pop metal act BABYMETAL has released a "live" music video for the English version of its song "Elevator Girl". The track is taken from the band's third album, "Metal Galaxy", which will be released on October 11 via earMUSIC/Edel. The follow-up to 2016's "Metal Resistance" is based on the concept of "The Odyssey Of ...
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KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch has confirmed to "Good Company" that he is "almost done" recording his new solo album. "I'm working with Jasen [Rauch] from BREAKING BENJAMIN," he said (see video below). "And I'm talking to Spencer [Chamberlain] from UNDEROATH about possibly doing something. And Lacey [Sturm] from FLYLEAF… She is singing on a ...
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Twenty-one years since the release of its murderous debut, EXHUMED continues its onslaught of gore-obsessed death metal on its new album, "Horror", coming October 4 via Relapse Records. Aptly titled, "Horror" is an exploration of all things macabre, as the undisputed pioneers of neck-breaking riffs plow through fifteen of the band's most intense tracks to ...
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JUDAS PRIEST's Glenn Tipton has thanked fans who have purchased t-shirts in support of the Glenn Tipton Parkinson's Foundation, launched last year after the guitarist announced that he had been battling the disease for a decade prior to the band's "Firepower" tour. All proceeds from the foundation will benefit a pioneering new treatment called MR-guided ...
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Former JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing joined ex-MANOWAR axeman Ross "The Boss" Friedman on stage earlier today (Sunday, August 11) at this year's Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Park, Derbyshire, United Kingdom to perform four songs. This marked K.K.'s first public performance since October 17, 2009 when JUDAS PRIEST played the final "British Steel ...
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Former JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing joined ex-MANOWAR axeman Ross "The Boss" Friedman for four songs earlier today (Sunday, August 11) at this year's Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Park, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. This marked K.K.'s first public performance since October 17, 2009 when JUDAS PRIEST played the final "British Steel 30th Anniversary" date ...
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SAINT ASONIA vocalist/guitarist Adam Gontier (ex-THREE DAYS GRACE) and guitarist Mike Mushok (also of STAIND) recently spoke with Paulie Walnuts of HardDrive Radio. The full conversation can be seen below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the group's newest members, drummer Sal Giancarelli (also of STAIND) and bassist Cale Gontier (Adam's cousin): ...
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According to The Pulse Of Radio, I PREVAIL currently has the No. 3 track at rock radio with "Breaking Down", but the band has just been awarded a platinum certification for another song entirely. The Michigan act has just been handed a platinum award for sales of its cover of Taylor Swift's "Blank Space", which ...
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Japanese pop metal act BABYMETAL will release its third album, "Metal Galaxy", on October 11 via earMUSIC/Edel. The follow-up to 2016's "Metal Resistance" is based on the concept of "The Odyssey Of Metal Galaxy". "Metal Galaxy" contains 14 songs, including include the four singles that have been released over the course of the last few ...
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In a brand new interview with "The Art And Span Show", FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH guitarist Zoltan Bathory was asked to clarify his recent claim that the group upcoming eighth album will see him and his bandmates "shifting back to that heavier side" of their sound. "This answer will cause a debate in certain forums," ...
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